Kbase 14167: RESULTS - How to search for */ & not have it seen as comment
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/05/1998 |
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RESULTS - How to search for */ & not have it seen as comment
If a customer is trying to get RESULTS to search for data
containing the "/" and is using the wildcard character "*",
they may run into the problem where RESULTS flags */ as a
comment, leading to possible syntax errors for the rest of
the search pattern. For example, say you want to search
for items matching this pattern: */is/*. That is:
/is/
abc/is/
abc/is/xyz
etc. Almost the same can be accomplished by using the
following search criteria:
*./is/.*
The introduction of the '.' avoids the problem of the */
being taken as the comment delimiter. However, one
should note that '.' requires at least one character to
appear before the /, whereas the * includes null. If
the search needed to include the case of /is/ as a match,
with no preceding or trailing characters, then they would
have to search for that separately with simply "/is/".
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 14167